Shirt



(No Model.)

S. MILLER.

SHIRT.

No. 440,407. Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

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ATENT SIMON MILLER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,407, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed August 5, 1890. Serial No. 361,090- (No model.)

To all whom it 72mg concern.-

Be it known that I, SIMON MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Neck-Tear Retainer Attachments for Shirts, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyin g drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in neck-wear retainer attachments for shirts; and it consists of means, substantially as described and claimed, connected with a shirt for preventing the band of a scarf or necktie from riding or slipping out of place, and also consists of means for keeping the collar in place thereon, so that the same rests flat and presents a smooth and well-fitting appearance.

The figures respectively represent perspective views of neck-wear embodying my invention, the collar being partly turned up in Figure 1 and partly broken away in Figs. 2 and 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a shirt having in the present case a turn-down collar B. On the contact faces of the back of the collar and adjacent portions of the shirt are secured, respectively, the loops D and E, and in such position that when the collar is turned down, as in Figs. 2 and 3, the loops D and E are adjacent to each other and extend substantially at right angles to the direction of the length of the collar, as shown.

F designates a scarf or necktie having its band G passed through the loops, whereby the collar B is brought into and retained in close contact with the neckband O of the shirt, so that it rests fiat and sets well in po sition. The band G of the necktie is also prevented from riding or slipping from its proper place between the collar and the band of the shirt.

The loops E have their ends secured to the collar and top of the shirtbody and pass freely over the neckband, thus avoiding stitches on the neckband, and consequently lumps or projections thereon.

The loops D have their ends secured to the collar, thus avoiding stitches on said band, and consequently lumps or projections thereon. In other words, the ends of the loops are so located that the collar rests comparatively fiat in position.

The improvement is chiefly designed for negligee shirts of flannel, wool, silk, &c., and used for boating, lawn-tennis, &c., the mate rial of the collars of which, being of a soft and yielding character, are therefore readily liable to disarrangement. The loops, which are of tape or other light material, are sewed to the under side of the collar and adjacent portion of the shirt, so that when the band of the necktie is inserted in the said loops the collar is reliably held in place, whereby it presents at all times a smooth and well-setting appearance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a negligee shirt and the collar thereof, of parallel loops D E, the loops D being secured solely to the body of the collar and the loops E being secured both to said body and to the shirt-body below the neckband O and bridged freely over said neckband, substantially as described.

SIMON MILLER.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

